Biden wins, but Trump—and division—aren’t going away

CNN’s election-count coverage ended as it began: with Wolf Blitzer all excited. “After four long, tense days, we’ve reached a historic moment in this election,” he said. “We can now project the winner of the presidential race.” One thrumming musical interlude later, the network reported that Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (the full name treatment, so it must be serious) had taken Pennsylvania, and thus Pennsylvania Avenue. It was 11:24am Eastern. Within four minutes, NBC, CBS, ABC, and the Associated Press had all echoed CNN’s call; over on Fox News, Neil Cavuto said that his network was “not comfortable doing that yet ourselves,” but by 11:40am, Fox, too, had declared the election over. (Decision Desk HQ and its media partners, including Vox and Business Insider, called the race several hours earlier; per the Washington Post, the AP and the networks delayed due to insufficient data and pandemic-linked uncertainty, and not—as some observers and Biden backers feared—out of excessive, Trump-induced caution.) In cities across America, Biden supporters banged pans and honked car horns—the original push notification. The Queens Daily Eagle reported that a local man had just been evicted. Washingtonian reported that a longtime federal employee was relocating to a historic home. Even though the Biden call was not a surprise, the mainstream press seemed to exhale, all at once. The banner headlines instantly came out. Back on CNN, Van Jones sobbed, and Jake Tapper and Abby Phillip wondered... Continue reading at 'Columbia Journalism Review'

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